Venezuelan private news TV channel Globovisión requested punishment for its assailants and increased guarantees from the Venezuelan government to practice journalism freely, during a hearing at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Organization of American States (OAS). The proceeding is aimed at reporting attacks and assaults against 44 journalists, cameramen, and executives of the TV station. 

On Wednesday, before justices Cecilia Medina (chairwoman), Sergio Ramírez, Margarett May, Manuel Ventura, Leonardo Franco, Rhadys Abreu, and Diego García, journalists Ana Karina Villalba and Gabriela Perozo described the attacks against them by Chávez's supporters over the last few years while exercising journalism.

Perozo told the justices she and a camaraman were insulted by Hugo Chávez's advocates when covering an opposition rally.